Did the N@zis kill old people?

[Anonymous]

In Nazi usage, "euthanasia" referred to the systematic killing of those Germans whom the Nazis deemed "unworthy of life"

[bolverk]

The Nazis system was known as: Aktion T4
The organizing principle of T4 was racial purity and the national health of the German community, which required the removal and ultimate elimination of people thought unfit to live, and who would be referred to as “life unworthy of life” (“Lebensunwertes Leben” or “useless eaters”). Individuals with neurological, psychiatric, or physical disabilities who were deemed “incurable” by selected physicians would be subject to involuntary “euthanasia.” The doctors most often never saw the patient; rather, hospital or nursing staff would respond to questionnaires about patient health and capacity to work, and the doctors would rate the person as to whether or not death was warranted. If the answers indicated the patient’s inability to be a productive member of the Reich, he or she would be sent on to one of six “hospitals” where he or she would be granted an involuntary “mercy death.” Patients were murdered by lethal injection, starvation, or carbon monoxide gassing. Carbon monoxide would ultimately prevail as the preferred means of murder.
Aktion T4 essentially expanded the compulsory sterilization of those deemed “unfit” provided by the Nuremberg laws, which had been in operation since the early days of the Reich. In the six-year period between 1933 and 1939, approximately 360,000 people were sterilized. Aktion T4 itself would ultimately be extended to adults.
The methods and technologies employed in the T4 program to murder the handicapped would become a precursor to the atrocities committed in the death camps, from the Reinhard camps to the more sophisticated industrial scale murder of Auschwitz-Birkenau. Indeed, some of the same personnel who performed well in the AktionT4 program went on to great glory at the extermination centers.
It was but a short step to extend the ideological justification for murdering the unfit to other categories of perceived biological enemies of the state: Jews and Roma and Sinti, homosexuals, criminals, alcoholics, and malcontents.

[OneViewpoint]

The Nazis discriminated based on religion and ethnicity. Young, old, adults in their prime, it didn't matter.

[EmmiL]

They killed everyone

[Pterodon]

Yes they did. They used slave labor and if they didn’t think you could work they sent you straight to the gas chambers

[beefcakebradybatson]

Elders and youngsters were the Nazis' favourite victims because of their inability to perform slave labour in concentration camps.

[exitseven]

it wouldn't surprise me,

[DrPepper12]

Yes. Next question

[Anonymous]

They killed anyone "imperfect" in hitlers eyes

[Anonymous]

Nazis killed everyone.

[Sluttt]

Trump is

[BarryLiverstone]

Who?

[Jersey2]

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